Drytrons (2021) vs. Ishizu Tearlaments (2023) | Cross-Banlist Cup 2024

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[@Lithium2300]

Pre-recorded video! VOTES: Ishizu Tearlaments (94%) vs. Drytrons (6%) 0_o

[@gagabarbidou5975]

Well... It was deserved 😂

[@grillmaster95]

Bystials + shufflers against drytron is absurd

[@undeadinside3571]

It was pretty obvious 😂

[@gengstar09]

The length of the video is spoilers enough.

[@Lithium2300]

🙈🙈

[@pretsel5132]

The match up is spoilers enough 😆

[@LeyMurphyYGO]

I honestly expected this video to be under 6 min

[@kriltic9454]

​@@Lithium2300 please go back to adding a few minutes to each video as a way to help reduce spoilers

[@CRO-Palacinke-D.C]

​@@kriltic9454 it likely hurts the watchtime too much

[@giftedhippos]

When mom calls and says shes coming home in 7 minutes but my opponent is playing ishizu tear

[@johnathanlkjunior4204]

So your mother plays tearlaments?

[@TheKABE09]

Back in 2021 i never thought Drytron would be THIS outclassed dang

[@blueskyalchemist623]

Goes to show how cracked Tear is

[@maxicruz246]

Cuando Drytron dominaba no existía las gotas prohibidas.

[@travisdinham6084]

Everything will be powercreeped eventually

[@Jaddas]

@@maxicruz246 Thats not correct. Droplet was released in july 2020 and drytron came out in december 2020.

[@bencrandall-malcolm8303]

It's not really that Drytron is outclassed (although it absolutely is). The bigger problem is that Ishizu Tear is teched for the mirror, and everything that beats Ishizu Tear (bystials, shufflers, abyss dweller) kills Drytron even harder.

[@stiffeification]

Tear ishizu is a literal hard counter to everything Drytron does. The shufflers and Bystials just shit so hard on it.

[@Jhawk2711]

Baby it wasn’t even close

[@Carlet_S]

Oh, that's a sub 7 minute CBC match featuring Ishizu Tears...

[@lmr4403]

In the prediction-poll there was somebody claiming that full-power tear wasn't that strong and by no means the strongest deck of all time. XD I hope they reconsider their view.

[@potatoexe5410]

That person has either sacked all their games vs Tear or only played bad Tear players.

[@Jaddas]

@@potatoexe5410 Interesting. My first thought was "probably tried out tear, was bad with it and then decided its not that good actually"

[@lmr4403]

@@Jaddas @potatoexe5410 He indeed said he tested fullpower tear and kept losing to Swordsoul protos. XD

[@Jaddas]

@@lmr4403 Wait... How did he play full power tear against protos?

[@andrejv.2834]

I said we can't actually find out which deck is the best of all time as it'd take a lot of tournament testing in real formats It was obvious tear would easily take this one though as they played the bystials

[@NawDawgTheRazor]

The shufflers were what made it truly feel unbeatable. Truly cancerous.

[@justice8718]

I don’t get why there is a one for three card effect in the GY of all things. They might as well have GY raigeki in there.

[@NawDawgTheRazor]

@@justice8718 because komoney.

[@balistikscaarz1959]

6:12 I always tell my opponent this- "If you wanted to win you should've gone first" 😂

[@undeadinside3571]

Pretty much the case with every deck besides tenpai

[@LazyLee]

There are two types of decks in the CBC: Tear and decks waiting to be destroyed by Tear

[@_Sasuke_99]

Awww hell nah bro 💀😭

[@andrejv.2834]

And snake eye being the 3rd type, should've won againt tear but made awful misplays

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@andrejv.2834 Like ??

[@andrejv.2834]

@@_Sasuke_99 not making apo against the monster heavy deck

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@andrejv.2834 Herald of Orange light is a thing, Droplet too, And Apollousa isn't that standard in SE boards, Especially pure, Because they would rather make S:P instead to banish Tear names via turn player priority, So No. Tear Ishizu is just the better deck objectively, And let's Not forget Bystials on I:P masq, Alongside shufflers to shut off the GY

[@yataboi]

as someone that played drytron in POTE format, i knew exactly how this was gonna go. There's a reason i dropped the deck the second bystials hit.

[@allstars9915]

its just so refreshing to see my favourite deck still the best deck in history

[@RoryWilliamson]

wow the fact that bystials counter drytron turns this already unbalanced matchup into an absolute massacre

[@bossman4799]

I think we all knew how this was gonna go, but seeing the video length really seals the deal.

[@esrohm6460]

Imagine getting ftked by an opponent that didn't even had a turn jet because you activated a monster effect on the field. Because everyone played tear or exactly opened d-shifter or scooped i think was it not even clear ho much of a drug haveniss with ishizu really is. Only tear could have a longer turn on the first turn of the game than the opponent who went first

[@arielgomes7989]

Well, Tear would be favored against anything, but given how the interactions from Tear line up against Drytron, this is just a nightmare matchup, no chance whatsoever.

[@densai89]

The best feeling is summoning Meteonis Draconids and swinging over everything Tear has. But getting there is already difficult enough with all the shufflers, Bystials and Havnis allowing them to full combo when you go first. Thank you Konami (sarcasm) by not putting any restrictions on any relevant Tear cards. Why do you think everyone hates going against Adamancipators? They have long combos with no restrictions so they’re able to put up very oppressive boards. Drytrons are inherently weak because they are a 2 card combo deck (unlike a lot of these new 1 card full combo decks) and must tribute for cost so they neg and then get hit with a hand trap like Ash Blossom or a Bystial, which can completely end your turn. Drytron is my favorite archetype because rituals are my favorite summoning mechanic in the game and Drytrons work with virtually any ritual monster in the game. I wish Konami can solve the inherent weaknesses of ritual decks so we can have more fun with them.

[@SAMIBASIL]

it is so refreshing to see drytron get swept like that

[@JamarWilliams94]

We all expected the outcome but i did not think it would be that bad holy crap

[@rocapbg9518]

We didn't know how good we had it back then. Take me back.

[@_Sasuke_99]

@@rocapbg9518 Same here man..😔

[@NikoAmii]

Dang…. Wow

[@maxicruz246]

Impresionante presentación, impuso su poderío aquí, además que siempre le tocaron las mejores cartas.

[@RitualBoat]

Poor drytron, paired against Shufflers, droplets and Bystials

[@hotdogflexer9041]

I would’ve been surprised if Drytron won a duel. Not only is tear significantly better but thanks to the bystials and shufflers tear counters them as well.

[@vicentepalma999]

what a slaughter

[@TCGSyphax]

holy freeeeee in master duel i only play dino and to complete in the ishizu tear meta i had to play the shufflers myself because every game people were resolving agido. the cards are insane

[@colossaldonut5190]

Dang, if only Drytron could’ve gone for the funny Union Carrier into B-Buster Drake funny tech they might’ve had a chance that game 3.

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

It doesn't matter what's on Bystials and Ishizu Shifflers, Drytron is getting cooked whether it's a P.U.N.K. variant or Tearlaments, that's just too much GY interaction for it to handle.

[@buddbrown6858]

I sometimes forget how the Ishizu shufflers bring the deck over the top. Yes the molling is obviously cracked but the amount of times ive managed to get through the mills only to lose because of a quick effect: shuffle 5 playmakers is frustrating.

[@justice8718]

Ishizu Shufflers legit need erratas because they are that broken.

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

As far as I'm concerned they're the ONLY broken thing about the deck besides all the dumb floating it can do(which at least can be circumvented by battle destruction). 2 sided mills are EXTREMELY dangerous, and only the fact that the Shufflers can target between 3-10 cards a turn between them(assuming you're dumping both and running EotS in the most extreme case, otherwise 6 unrestricted GY returns is still a LOT) make that level of 2-way milling even remotely safe to run, and also made the Ishizu cards a lot more mandatory a part of decks used that format than even Tearlaments themselves, despite what the mill obsessed freaks would have you believe. The fact that Singleton Madolche players could top events where every other competent player was on Tear decks or Shifter/Soul Drain shenanigans says a lot about how hard the Earth Fairies could carry.

[@Shohoku_no_Daemon]

I feel that with every tear piece at 3, every other archetype card banned or at 1 could be at 3 and it wouldn’t even matter 😂

[@GuilhermeDiGiorgi]

Tear can do good both first and second, truly the deck of all time

[@mikeike9268]

2:53 drytron player threw because he saw the shuffler and could easily pitch gamma instead and still go through lines preventing the shuffler with the herald but oh well

[@floooowandereese]

"Nice graveyard deck. Anyway, tiaraments strongest?"

[@Alphakn1ght]

Bodied

[@BrandonBB4]

I fully expect Drytron to get waxed but I'm hoping for the best!

[@Thatoneguy48147]

As a former Drytron player, this made me audibly say “I wanna go home”

[@McTwinkes]

GG close game.

[@mashyu4721]

Where is the another match to prevent spoilers

[@bpcp3323]

What program is this for playing ygo

[@EHYGO]

Honestly i think the older drytron build with dawn knight would have played way better

[@orga7777]

Still loses to Shufflers, Bystials, Dweller, and Droplet. So it didn't matter.

[@averageguyonyoutube3324]

Ishizu Tearlaments treated Drytrons like it was Demise OTK

[@homeboy2258]

That was the quickest beat down I've ever seen 😂 Tear bodied Drytron lmao

[@buddbrown6858]

I know by nature it's dumb to say this but i think itll be hard to filly powercreep Ishizu Tear. But Konami will definitely give it a shot 😂

[@potatoexe5410]

Yea this went about as much as expected. Thought they would at least steal one game but nope Tear just had the answers

[@javierdavidcruzruiz4634]

Gardna Spoiler Shield!

[@MaverickHunter17]

This is the closest thing to a hard counter in the game, Drytron really has no chance against it

[@TayoAAdetola]

I want to go home. I was so depressed once I saw who went first.😭

[@romanvasquez9126]

We're going to worlds with this one

[@patrickcastell2061]

I miss tearlements

[@Jaddas]

Me too brother. Me too...

[@donaldlivingston75]

Ishizu Tear can't be in the CBC at full power, it's just too strong going first and second. Maybe revert back to the pure Tearlament version, or the modern post hits version? Ishizu Tear just has this unique ability to destroy you so thoroughly you don't even get to set up on your turn going first. Apart from just inherently being a broken mechanic fusing from the GY, the fact that every single one of their handtraps pulls triple duty as a handtrap, starter, and searcher is just nasty. Makes the deck entirely gas while sacrificing no going second power at all. Next matchup is an interesting one where Prankkids is probably outclassed, but at least Snake Eyes is...somewhat...more fair, so we might see some competition.

[@ChazBlanks]

Such a one sided match and people actually miss this deck.

[@Jaddas]

A deck being powerful doesnt mean its not fun. Especially since people miss playing tear themselfs... Noone misses playing against tear with dragon link or something.

[@lycidaes4752]

​@@Jaddasyea it is insanely fun to play I dont think anyone ever missed a deck cause it was fun to play against with stategirs that are sooo much worse

[@lukevalentino7942]

To quote Benny from fnv “ Truth is... the game was rigged from the start.”

[@riperkiller9787]

6 minutes video ☠️☠️☠️

[@maple1234567890321]

the next match up between prank and snake is be the same

[@donaldlivingston75]

Probably. But at least Snake Eyes has to rely on conventional cards, instead of all in one monsters that can disrupt, extend and full combo on turn 0 all in one card. Prankkids has a shot going first.

[@pathua7692]

Going 2nd against a full board and still easily coming on top….. hahahahah what a deck!

[@urd3adnow]

even if you started every game with drytron going 1st and doing uninterrupted full combo, i'm pretty sure tear still wins the series. 6 negates is not really enough vs tear.

[@andrejv.2834]

Negate + destroy isn't that good, but if it's backed up by vanity's fiend or scythe would be strong

[@wtfbros5110]

Drytrons got blasted lmao 💀

[@Tortorrta]

Gamba is always best

[@jessemccreem9607]

Bro needs to ban Ishizu tear from the cross banlist cup 💀💀💀

[@ChrisSaur]

Tiaraments strongest!

[@alexandreblossom6461]

Wow savage, poor Drytron but tear ishizu is a bad matchup for this deck too

[@passaroquetzalcoatlus6205]

No surprises here

[@darklaw7635]

And tear still not at full power. It's missing tearkash

[@FinalMorningstar]

it's more of a trade off. The format with tear kash you only had 1 orange light. I still think that was the strongest tear variant but we only had it for like 3-4 weeks before the deck got slaughtered on the banlist

[@shreesayajha]

​@@FinalMorningstar more like a few days ycs Lyon France was the only format in which year kash was legal and the banlist didn't hit tear to ovlivion

[@andrejv.2834]

Orange light is way stronger, tearkash is just a worse havnis because it needs an extra card, and not only loses to ash but also to quick play negation Tear averaged about 69% representation across the 3 ycs events orange light was unlimited for, whereas they had about 55% after it got limited Although their representation immediately started dropping after the first ycs, so it's probably not just an orange light thing but people figured out the format more

[@darklaw7635]

@andrejv.2834 that's not possible. Orange light was good but wasn't better than tear kash. Tearkash was at least a starter on your opponent turn. You cannot compare them.

[@andrejv.2834]

@@darklaw7635 ycs by ycs their representation went YCS Pasadena - 26/32 (81,25%) YCS Dortmund - 46/64 (71,87%) YCS San Jose - 18/32 (56,25%) - Orange light limit Remote YCS NA - 18/32 (56,25%) YCS Sydney - 21/32 (65,62%) Remote YCS LA - 15/32 (46,87%) - Tearkash release and 2nd wave of kash support YCS Lyon - 33/64 (51,56%) 3V3 YCS Mexico City - Unknown I guess it's possible that they would've been at around 56% or maybe even more had ariseheart not been released in the same set as tearkash, but we can only guess unfortunately But even in theory, going 2nd tearkash is just weaker havnis, she requires another card for cost, mills on a seperate chain, and that chain triggers on the field so cards like droplet and chalice stop her, the only advantage is that she's harder to play around, as a lot of decks just don't care about havnis Orange light is stronger because at worst, so if a miller gets ashed, it's just gamma, if it discards a shuffler that's 2 interactions off of 1 card and if it discards a miller that resolves that's usually 3 interactions off of 1 card

[@angelrosado3011]

God tear is oppressive

[@MiguelMartinon]

Tearlaments strongest!

[@animevolution880]

Hellnah tear is never gonna make a cross banlist cup again, its just completely out of the league Maybe exodia otk can beat it

[@pkfallen6110]

Ishizu tear is THE tier 0 and its absolutely unfair for any deck that doesnt Just set 5 floodgates to play against. Probably the worst screw UP ever in this game alongside Kshatira.

[@vehicledestroyer]

best deck in the game. weird lol

[@troyalexander52]

Why is this deck in the CBC? It’s a waste of a spot because it’s so OP

[@Truthhurts34]

Can you do tears full power verses snake eyes full power best of 5

[@sejotejerina3732]

That match was played already xd. Ish tear won 3-2.

[@Truthhurts34]

@@sejotejerina3732 thank you

[@sejotejerina3732]

@@Truthhurts34 I highly recommend to watch the series on its entirety, it's really fun 👌🏻

[@n3kuzya]

Tear is just the best deck ever, it can't literally lose against anything. Too good going 1st, going 2nd, can literally break boards *while* building a board even on your first turn and it doesn't lose to any ht except shifter. Unlucky that practically every deck in these gruppi heavily use the gy so skill issue l guess lmao

[@shawnjavery]

I had some amount of success playing plunder that format online, though I took tear to every tournament I went to irl. That week and a half where people cut the millers to 1 was glorious. But that was about as hard of a counter tear had engine to engine besides hard flood gates and even then it was an extremely uphill battle. Even playing a deck that banished for interaction, could dodge the targeting interaction of planet and kaliedo, had a line to get interaction through rukalos, and could play around shufflers, it was rough. Post phhy you didn't even need ish cards for tear to be tier 0.

[@littleboijakob2737]

Loses to shifter

[@andrejv.2834]

It would've lost to snake eye in their previous match if the snake eye player actually made apo at least once

[@chewdoom8415]

​​@@shawnjaveryI think things would have been easier against ishizu free tear post phhy if you removed ariseheart from their arsenal, but we will never know.

[@ramaroy2408]

To make it worse OCG have no banlist tournament and tear dominated in that format. And tear doesn't even WANT to play pot of greed in the format because card that basically free +1 to any deck is worse for their (tear) consistency lol

[@badcaseofthebajabada]

SPOILER BLOCKER jk I mean come on

[@littleboijakob2737]

Video is 6 min long there is no need for spoiler blocks😂

[@travisdinham6084]

This is so yawn bro, like why even have Ishizu Tear in it if its going to defeat every deck predictably

[@littleboijakob2737]

There will always be THE best deck doesnt matter if tear is in it or not

[@travisdinham6084]

​@@littleboijakob2737yes but Ishizu Tear is THE DECK. What deck can even compete with this

[@Jaddas]

@@littleboijakob2737 But its rarely this much better. We had Swordsoul winning in 2022 for example. It was the best deck of the tournament, but it wasnt 3-0ing decks without issues and it would usually struggle against the other contenders. Tear will simply eat everything it faces...

[@andrejv.2834]

​@@Jaddasit would still probably be challenged by ada, kash, snake eye, infernoble, tri zoo and floodgate swoso, and dark world ftk can beat anyone if they go 1st Thing here is though, without custom side decks, the only decks that maybe stands a chance going 2nd against an average tear hand is swoso just dropping multiple floodgates or kash with shifter

[@DinoConV]

Tiaraments Strongest

[@srvntofAllah987]

I really love this format and enjoy it fully, but it was a huge mistake to let this deck participate in the tournament bro because there is no deck that can beat this and we already know the winner.. You could've just take the exact same Tear list from last years cbc where they also won, it was already strong enough and more balanced. This way there will be no exitement in lower bracket in my opinion. Maybe you can still change it to other list for the rest of the tournament but it's your choice. As long as there are not other decks who are on same lvl as this, Full power Tears should be banned from this Tournament. Just my opinion 👍

[@dwightchowace]

damn this still is going? lol

[@lycidaes4752]

This gonna go for the rest of the year

[@aian3964]

1st, maxx c gap

[@chrisburns9898]

This is why I hated tearlament.

[@maxa7535]

Lame

[@christopherhakes7719]

Ocg vs tcg duels are dumb

[@sejotejerina3732]

The Ishtear list is from the TCG and you saw the winner xd so if you want to complain about Maxx c you should do it in other match where it matters lol.

[@potatoexe5410]

​@@sejotejerina3732this was mainly due to maxx c not being seen in the opener. If it was drytron might have been able to steal 1 game because of it

[@sejotejerina3732]

@@potatoexe5410 this Ishtear list defeated ocg snake fire king including Maxx c lol. So don't overrate the roach against the strongest engine ever. Pure snake eye proven to be the better build putting up a fight even without Maxx c. I understand that you all hate Maxx c but speaking on this particular abomination of a deck guys...

[@lhv2k]

For the sake of the viewer, please modify your Tear decklist. That list looks wrong. Nobody play only 1 Scream, there's a reason everyone plays atleast 2, so that you can have it on field and still mill the other. And nobody plays only 2 Merrli, no need to explain that. The deck is full power here, so you don't need to use a wacky list

[@sejotejerina3732]

The wacky list won a ycs lol and also is gonna win this entire tournament lol. Come on, this is enough for Ishtear.

[@travisdinham6084]

Stop trying to sound as if he was handicapping Tearlaments. This is legit the list that won Pasadena so if its shit in your opinion, that means your opinion is objectively wrong

The list was heavily teched out to win the mirror match as often as possible when going second. You only need 2 Merrli btw, 1 to summon off Kit and the second is always available to send off of Sprind if you don't hit it.

[@potatoexe5410]

This decklist was designed with the mirror match in mind and the reason why it won the event. If you were not playing the mirror 3 Agido was the go to. To top it off Dweller in the extra was exactly played because of the Tear mirror and was usually dead vs the other matchups of its time period. Merli, Reino, and Diviner all competed for the normal summon so cutting Merli down to 2 was plausible. In the builds without Diviner, Merli is at 3. The only real iffy thing is the 1 scream but that's probably due to deck space for the techs vs the mirror.

[@_Sasuke_99]

Lithium is forced to play lists as they are. He cannot cherry-pick the cards in the list. If he wants to use Ishizu Tears with Bystials, He has to use a list like this, Or else he will have to use a different (And probably worse list), And still he cannot cherry-pick the cards in the other decklist, So yeah, This is the best option we have sadly. The list isn't even that bad tho to be fair. I mean Diviner into Baronne is pretty nice against something like Evenly Matched, In case you don't have a discard for crime, Or at least even negate Evenly with Baronne, Then negate something like TTT with Cryme, So yeah it's really not too bad. Also the 6 Bystials will come in clutch like crazy too

[@dicosirio6337]

When I heard the title, the first thoight was:"Here comes bullying"🥲